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Missouri's Mark Ellis celebrates his victory over Duke's Konrad Dudziak in the heavyweight championship at the NCAA wrestling championships March 21 in St. Louis.

By Robby Lewis ¦

Missouri heavyweight wrestler Mark Ellis won the national title for the
heavyweight divison with a 3-2 overtime victory over Duke's Konrad
Dudziak. Ellis becomes only the second wrestler to win a national title
for the Tigers.

The Columbia College men's basketball team beat Westminster (Utah) 50-47 Saturday night in the quarterfinals of the NAIA national tournament at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City. The Cougars will play MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) at 8:50 p.m Monday in the semifinals.

As Jeannine Craig followed the challenges before the Columbia School Board, she thought back to her years as a former school board president in northern Illinois. Now, she's ready to serve on another school board.

MU finished third at the Big 12 Championship for the third
straight year Saturday afternoon in Ames, Iowa. The Tigers finished
just .150 behind second-place Nebraska and .225 behind
champion Oklahoma, which won its second straight conference
title.

Nine candidates are competing for two seats on the seven-member
Columbia School Board being vacated by current board president Michelle
Gadbois and vice president Steve Calloway. The election is April 7.

A building on the grounds of the Community at Old
Hawthorne was being dismantled to move to the Boone County Fairgrounds. About 40 volunteers participated in the project,
including 14 members of an Old Order Amish community from Jamesport.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the Sunset Hills police officer was driving in the wrong lane when she struck a 1997 Honda, killing its four passengers and hospitalizing its driver and the officer.

Dan Thornton, of El Dorado, claimed that his three businesses had been targeted for arson because he is gay. Investigators, however, determined that Thornton caused the fires to collect the insurance money.